US 11,939,034 B1
Deep-sea crawling robot and crawling method thereof
Zhilei Sun, Qingdao (CN); Bin Zhai, Qingdao (CN); Nengyou Wu, Qingdao (CN); Wei Geng, Qingdao (CN); Yunbao Sun, Qingdao (CN); Gang Dong, Qingdao (CN); Xilin Zhang, Qingdao (CN); Dong Zhang, Qingdao (CN); Qingsheng Liu, Qingdao (CN); and Shixing Li, Qingdao (CN)
Assigned to Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao (CN)
Filed by Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao (CN)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/525,888.
Claims priority of application No. 202211547375.0 (CN), filed on Dec. 5, 2022.
Int. Cl. B63G 8/00 (2006.01); B63G 8/08 (2006.01); B63G 8/22 (2006.01); E21C 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B63G 8/001 (2013.01) [B63G 8/08 (2013.01); B63G 8/22 (2013.01); E21C 50/00 (2013.01); B63G 2008/004 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deep-sea crawling robot, comprising a crawling robot body and a countertop, wherein a top of the crawling robot body is fixedly connected to the countertop, left and right sides of a bottom of the crawling robot body are respectively provided with crawler belts, and left and right sides of the countertop are respectively provided with weight-increasing auxiliary crawling mechanisms; an outer plate is fixedly connected to a front side or back side of the countertop, and a multifunctional propelling mechanism is arranged on the outer plate; shaft plates are respectively arranged in the middle of front and back sides of a top end of the countertop, two parallel turning shafts are connected between the two shaft plates, and two second drive motors are fixedly connected to an outside of the shaft plate on one side; output shafts of the second drive motors are respectively connected to the turning shafts through couplings, and an end of the turning shafts is rotatably connected to the shaft plate on the other side; and turning frames are fixedly connected to an axial outside of the two turning shafts, a chamber is formed between the two turning frames and the countertop, and a rapid dewatering mechanism is arranged in the chamber of the countertop.